Machine Tool Sales Online

17/11/2024

Bristol to Hull on a Friday!….”are you crazy” they said! But absolutely not!

This is MACH Machine Tools doing what it says it’ll do, by supporting our young engineers right across the country, with us sponsoring the Engineering Apprentice of the Year Award and attending The Hull Training & Adult Education Awards Evening at The Guild Hall in Hull last night.

And what a great night it was too!

Congratulations to all last night’s winners, and of course a special mention to James Seymour from Bright Blue Foods, who won the Engineering Apprentice of The Year Award. (We are a bit biased!! 😀) It was a privilege to present his prize to him on stage.

We met some great apprentices and their employers during the evening, and also had the chance to catch up with last year’s Engineering Award winner, Richard Cartwright from Supercraft in Brough, who gave us a great insight into his year since being recognised by the college and MACH Machine Tools last year. Keep up the good work Richard!

Thanks must go to Rachel David, Carole and Cheryl from HTAE for inviting us and organising the event…it’s always great to spend an evening celebrating the young people’s achievements.

23/06/2024

Yesterday went really well for the Loughborough University - MACH Machine Tools’ Team Tetra at the Red Bull Soapbox Challenge in London….

Our driver, Magnus made it all the way to the bottom of the course, and that’s no mean feat!! Yes we had the Tetris blocks slowly falling off the car as he went down the hill and over the jumps, which made for a comedic performance, especially, when he punched the last block off at the bottom of the hill!! Great fun all day!!

We’re still not sure what place we came in the race, but we did really well and are very proud of ourselves!!

Keep an eye on Dave TV, where the whole race will be broadcast this week….

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22/06/2024

And while MACH Machine Tools’ sponsored Red Bull Soap Box Team, “Tetra”, are throwing themselves down the hill at Alexandra Palace in London today, (22nd June), The beautiful David Appleby built Triumph TR7 V8, also sponsored by MACH, is at the other end of the country…“Piloted” by Mark Higgins, who’s smashing the Argyll Rally at their first visit there…Why did we say “Piloted”, well, take a look at the following pictures!

We’ll keep you posted on how the MACH Teams do this weekend. Needless to say, it’s great to be part of all this!!

22/06/2024

Have you heard about Red Bull’s Soap Box Challenge??? Then Read on…

MACH Machine Tools is delighted to announce its sponsorship of a group of 4 students from Loughborough University in this years Red Bull Soap Box Challenge.

“Team Tetra” has designed and built a steel space frame chassis Soap Box that’s covered in colourful “Tetris” style blocks. The team is led by Nyah Warner (a Product Design Engineering Student), assisted by Magnus Knight (an Industrial Design Student and Soap Box Driver), Jacob Turner (Graphic Design Student and Co Pilot) and Luke Gotts (Civil Engineering Student and Chief Engineer on this project). Nyah told us that, “Despite each of us studying different subjects, a great team emerged when we united our skills and knowledge. We’ve learnt and truly believe in the power of multidisciplinary collaboration. We want to share the importance of this within design teams that will hopefully inspire younger generations. This Soap Box looks great, its really strong and its fast too, so we’re really confident!”

David Andrew from MACH Machine Tools, and The Vigilance Groups’ Managing Director said, “We were inspired by this Group of Students…Sponsoring them both technically and financially fits perfectly with our Educational Sponsorship Programme that we’ve been rolling out over the past 4 years.” Talking about the race he concluded, “We’re all really looking forward to seeing how we do in the race. The Red Bull competition is always a very lively Global event…this year it’s in the UK too, at Alexandra Palace in London on Saturday the 22nd June 2024. It’s also being televised on Red Bull TV at 6PM on Saturday, so tune in and have a watch! Its great viewing!“

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22/06/2024

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10/05/2024

What are you doing this weekend??Something as cool as this??

The DAE Engineering Triumph TR8 “Tony Pond” recreation, with MACH Machine Tools as Technical Partners, is on the Isle of Man competing in the Manx Rally, with rally legend Mark Higgins behind the wheel and Carl Williamson as co driver…

Commenting today, Dave Appleby said, “We’ve been busy since the RAC Rally building this tarmac spec’d version of the car, and it seems to suit Mark too…he got a 2nd in class at the Severn Valley a couple of weeks ago, so it looks like we’ll be competitive this weekend…”

It’s a journey of nostalgia for Mark, who was on the Island 44 years ago as a young lad, watching his father compete in the Manx, the same year that Tony Pond won the event in his factory Triumph TR8, a car built Dave Appleby and the team at Rover SV Division in the 80’s….so a lovely nod back to the past for the team, the car and the driver!

We’ll keep you posted on how it’s going.

03/05/2024

Just arrived in our Bristol Showroom!

An immaculate HAAS ST15 with tailstock, tool setter, parts catcher & swarf conveyor. Ready for demo in the Bristol showroom.

19/04/2024

From an immaculate and busy stand, to all broken down and packed up in just a few hours!…but what a week for us it was at MACH Machine Tools!

298 solid enquiries, 9 machine orders, with 16 enquires rated as 100% chance of writing the business plus a partnership agreement signed with a training provider in the UK too! Not bad eh? It doesn’t get much better than that!

Thank you to each and every person that came to see us, we loved showing you around our products, chatting to you and hearing about your plans and how we can help you achieve them.

Final note must go to our guys, both here and back at base…it was great sharing the buzz of the show with you all, we had fun, lots of laughs and worked hard too…thanks to you all, we couldn’t do this without you.

What a great team we have!

See you all soon!

17/03/2024

Many of you will know just how involved we are at MACH Machine Tools with encouraging young people into engineering…we currently sponsor 28 colleges and training schools around the country, and amongst other activities, offer work experience places to youngsters from the Bristol area…we had the pleasure of having this young man from Castle School in Thornbury join for us his weeks work experience this week.

Corey told us when he came in that he thought he fancied a future career in engineering, after his week of working with our engineering, service and applications teams, his dad wrote us a fabulous email, thanking us for our time but importantly, went on to tell us that Corey loved his week with us and now was definitely going to go into engineering for his career! Job done! 👍

Thanks for the effort you put in Corey, we loved having you with us and you’re welcome to come back at anytime!

28/02/2024

The Vigilance Group in Bristol, is looking for an inside sales professional, to handle its incoming sales calls for the Group’s New and Used Machine Tool Divisions, MACH Machine Tools and Machine Tool Sales Online.

The ideal candidate will have a back ground in mechanical engineering, so will have the technical ability to talk to other engineers, have a good understanding of machine tools, both manual and CNC, will probably already be in a sales role, so will be an organised and friendly individual.

Joining the sales team in Bristol, you’ll take incoming enquiries, organise the quotation, follow up the sales lead, host the inevitable customer visit and help us to close the sale. Once ordered, you’ll work with our internal Operations Team to get the machine delivered and installed.

So a varied and interesting customer focused position, working for one of the country’s fastest growing machine tool suppliers.

Interested?? Then in the first instance, please send your CV to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!

03/02/2024

So a bit of a sad Friday for us all at the Vigilance Group yesterday…

Anyone that’s either dealt with, or visited us in the past 7 years, will have met Helen Freke. She started as our Receptionist and Office Administrator, and quickly rose to become our Sales Office Manager. She was the most brilliantly organised and most efficient person you could wish to work with. She worked along our Group Managing Director during her time with us who described her as “his right arm”.

Well, yesterday we had to say goodbye and farewell to her, as she leaves us to begin a new life journey on the other side of the world. Her and her partner emigrate to Australia to start a new life in Adelaide at the end of February. We will most certainly miss this one, but know that she’s made the right decision and will of course be keeping in touch.

Being a very private girl, Helen requested a “no fuss send off” and asked that we just have a fish and chip Friday together, for the last time. (It was very scrummy too! Good choice Hel’s!)

All that’s left to say is; Helen. Thank you for being part of our family, thanks for the hard work, organisation, dedication and of course the fun and laughter over the years. The very best of luck to you both xx

23/01/2024

We’re often told by our potential customers that they dont know too much about our build partner, DynaPath, so thought this might be interesting for you.

Firstly, it’s clear that we are just scratching the surface of what DynaPath’s superb facility in Taichung can produce!

We were very impressed with the capability and the scale of the operation here. Just headline numbers: They produce and sell over 4000 control and drive packages for VMC, CNC turning, wire and sink EDM and stir welding machinery too. Not only that, but they also produce in excess of 2500 complete CNC machine tools and EDM machines per year!

We were delighted to see, first hand, the factory, the scale of the component stock holding and the quality of the build here…

We’ve included in the post a sneak preview of the new MACH DynaPath VMC’s that we passed off later today, but we thought that you might like to see some of their facility and capabilty that they have in house here, including, control and electrical cabinet design, R&D and assembly, frame machining, powder coating, machine build and test.

Further, following MACH’s successful launch in the UK market over the past 4 years for DynaPath products, we’re delighted to have signed a partnership agreement with DynaPath for MACH, and look forward to passing on the direct factory supply cost saving that that agreement will have in our markets in the UK and Europe.

19/01/2024

Matt and I have really been looking forward to this:

A trip to DynaPath’s factory in Taichung to pass off the 1st batch of new MACH MDV DynaPath Windelta controlled Vertical Machining Centres. Plus: Our 1st viewing of the new prototype slant bed lathes that we’ve designed with them too.

Nothing like a great build partner who support everything we do in the market.

We’ll post some sneak preview pictures of it all next week….see you on the other side as they say!

21/12/2023

To all of our customers, suppliers, industry partners and sub contractors, for both MACH Machine Tools and Machine Tool Sales Online, thanks for trusting us and supporting us again throughout 2023…425 machines sold this year across our new and used divisions, so it was another superb year for our Group, and that’s all thanks to you!

That said, as we lock up for the last time in 2023, we’d like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas, a restful break and a prosperous New Year. Hope to see you in 2024.

The Directors and Staff at the Vigilance Group Bristol. 🌲🌲🌲

(An unusual Christmas picture to send we know, but it’s a shot of the part MACH Machine Tool sponsored Triumph TR7 V8, that competed in this year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally…see the MACH Logo on the front bumper?!…plus it does have a Christmas tree in the picture too! 😁) Merry Christmas!!

07/12/2023

MACH Machine Tools were delighted to be invited to Sponsor the Hull Training and Adult Education learner awards, in the Guildhall Hull, tonight.

A superb event, in a beautiful location, surrounded by Apprentice learners, their families, industry partners and delivery staff from Hull College.

Our Group MD, David Andrew, attended the event with The Vigilance Groups’ Northern Area Manager, Jack Varley, to present the prestigious Higher Engineering Award to Richard Cartwright, a final year apprentice from Supercraft Ltd in Brough, with his mother, grandmother and Supercraft directors looking on.

Our congratulations to all of the nominees & winners at tonight’s awards.